Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...

This winter’s big freeze led Long Island’s electric grid to rely on two energy sources that were once considered dinosaurs: fuel oil and the region’s oldest power plants. During the period of the ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. U.S. grid owners are investing in cost-efficient grid enhancements and virtual power plant schemes to help meet soaring demand but ...

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The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) datacentres has forced a long-overdue reckoning in the technology sector. What was once framed as an internal efficiency challenge for cloud providers has ...

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard proclamations such as that ‘baseload is dead’ and the sorting of energy sources ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The five electric cooperatives that serve the Upstate are urging customers to reduce energy use to reduce the strain on the power grid and avoid temporary power ...

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...

As many states across the nation brace for a severe winter storm this weekend, the Department of Energy is advising grid operators to use data centers as backup generation sources in case of a power ...

UPDATE (January 30 th, 2026): For a technical breakdown of the incident affecting a company in Poland’s energy sector, refer to this blogpost. In late 2025, Poland’s energy system faced what has been ...

The Trump administration wants the largest electricity grid to add $15 billion worth of new power generation — and he wants tech companies to pay for it, even if they don’t need the capacity. The ...

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...